{"id":10695,"date":"2021-12-25T08:26:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T13:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10695"},"modified":"2021-12-16T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T01:29:13","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-25-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10695","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you have lost a loved one (either recently or in the past), consider that if Christ wasn\u2019t born, your loved one would be in Hades right now, but because Christ died for us, they might be in Paradise instead. Are you mad at God because they died? Let\u2019s not forget that unless we die, we cannot live. I am not trying to downplay anyone\u2019s grief. God knows that losing a loved one can be the most difficult thing we ever go through, but let\u2019s look at it through the proper lenses. Christ\u2019s birth should not make it sadder, but more bearable.\u00a0\u201c<br \/>\n(Fr Joseph Hazar, \u2018Orthodox Christmas in America\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10696\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bbeb-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bbeb-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bbeb-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bbeb-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bbeb.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you have lost a loved one (either recently or in the past), consider that if Christ wasn\u2019t born, your loved one would be in Hades right now, but because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10697,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695\/revisions\/10697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}